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The Rise of Silas Lapham
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William Dean Howells |
The Rise of Silas Lapham is a novel written by William Dean Howells in 1885 about the materialistic rise of Silas Lapham from rags to riches, and his ensuing moral susceptibility. Silas earns a fortu… |
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Emma's journal
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Marissa Moss |
From 1774 to 1776, Emma describes in her journal her stay in Boston, where she witnesses the British blockade and spies for the American militia. Features hand-printed text, drawings, and marginal no… |
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Prank
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Kathryn Lasky |
A teenage girl strives to escape from her dead-end existence in a tough neighborhood of East Boston and from her violent, quarrelsome family. |
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Alexander's bridge
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Willa Cather |
Late one brilliant April afternoon Professor Lucius Wilson stood at the head of Chestnut Street, looking about him with the pleased air of a man of taste who does not very often get to Boston. He had… |
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Mortal fear
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Robin Cook |
When an eminent biomolecular geneticist dies violently before his eyes, a doctor must use more than his medical knowledge to explain what he comes to believe is murder, and to stop a scientific break… |
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Shrink rap
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Robert B. Parker |
Boston P.I. Sunny Randall goes on the road to protect a bestselling author -- and uncovers a world of dark secrets. |
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Rough Weather
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Robert B. Parker |
A hurricane hinders a kidnapping and Spenser goes on a search for the man responsible — the infamous Gray Man, who has both helped and hunted Spenser in the past. Heidi Bradshaw is wealthy, beautiful… |
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Family honor
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Robert B. Parker |
PI Sunny Randall of Boston searches for a rich man's daughter who ran away to be a prostitute. After finding her Sunny must guard her because the girl is on a hit list. She witnessed a conspiracy inv… |
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Potshot
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Robert B. Parker |
"Boston P.I. Spenser returns - heading west to the rich man's haven of Potshot, Arizona, a former mining town reborn as a paradise for Los Angeles millionaires looking for a place to escape the press… |
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Mortal stakes
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Robert B. Parker |
Everybody loves a winner, and the Rabbs are major league. Marty is the Red Sox star pitcher, Linda the loving wife. She loves everyone except the blackmailer out to wreck her life. Is Marty throwing … |
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The Surgeon (Jane Rizzoli, Book 1)
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Tess Gerritsen,Tess Gerritsen |
If it's gripping, it's Gerritsen. The terrifying first Jane Rizzoli bestseller.In Boston, there's a killer on the loose. A killer who targets lone women, who breaks into their apartments and performs… |
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Vanish (Jane Rizzoli, Book 5)
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Tess Gerritsen |
If it's gripping, it's Gerritsen. A chilling Rizzoli and Isles thriller from Sunday Times bestselling author Tess Gerritsen.The beautiful woman appears to be just another corpse in the morgue. But wh… |
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Hot Stuff
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Janet Evanovich |
If you like hot men, hot action and hot attraction you're going to love this HOT new series! HOT STUFF introduces Cate Madigan, a Boston native from a large and crazy Irish family. Cate has far too m… |
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I'm going to Boston to visit the ducks
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Harriet Ziefert |
A young boy and girl discuss visiting Public Gardens in Boston, petting the ducks and viewing the swan boats. |
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Spiral Hunt
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Margaret Ronald |
Some people have the Sight. Genevieve Scelan has the Scent.They call her "Hound," and with her unique supernatural sense Evie can track nearly anything — lost keys, vanished family heirlooms . . . ev… |
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Chasing Shadows
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Terri Reed |
When senior citizens start mysteriously disappearing from a Boston retirement home, heiress Kristina Worthington is suspicious. Especially since she fears her beloved grandmother is next. Without sol… |
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Cook the books
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Jessica Conant-Park |
Chloe Carter desperately needs a job, so she takes one assisting a cookbook writer. Unfortunately it stirs up painful memories of her ex-boyfriend Josh, who left her for Hawaii. While compiling a boo… |
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Body Bags (Body of Evidence, #1)
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Christopher Golden |
"The first day at college, my professor dropped dead. The second day, I assisted at his autopsy. Let's hope I don't have to go through four years of this . . ."
When Jenna Blake starts her freshma… |
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The last man
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Charles Kenney |
For decades Gerta Wahljak has been haunted by a photograph of ten Nazi officers taken in the concentration camp where she was imprisoned during the Holocaust. Since emigrating to the United States, s… |
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Maggie and Oliver, or, A bone of one's own
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Valerie Hobbs |
A dog whose beloved owner has died and an orphaned ten-year-old girl find each other while enduring poverty and homelessness in early-twentieth-century Boston. |
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